Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.
Lysa TerKeurst
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Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking ...
LYSA TERKEURST To be set aside is to be rejected.To be set apart is to be given an assignment that requires prepara...
LYSA TERKEURST Acceptance is like an antibiotic that prevents past rejections from turning into present-day infecti...
LYSA TERKEURST Now I'm not saying the act of going to church fixes everything. Just as simply looking at a restaura...
LYSA TERKEURST Comfort zones don't have to be comfortable--they're just familiar. It's where you feel like you belo...
LYSA TERKEURST As soon as the time machine is invented, all religious people should be sent back in time, where the...
JASON MENEZES
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's m...
TARIQ RAMADAN
When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student
MARVA COLLINS
People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be...
WESLEY SNIPES people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ All I can do is keep working, keep auditioning, keep talking to people - and whatever it takes to sh...
JIM PARSONS
Whatever people do, they do for a reason and they think that it meets their
needs....by THEIR percep...
ANTHONY ROBBINS
... not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside.
FREDRIK BACKMAN
Many never realize they always had the key in their pocket, so they die at the locked door, never re...
ANTHONY LICCIONE
Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time bef...
MALCOLM X Life is all about what's happening now, dont wait for tomorrow- Keep it simple - MB
BHARATH MAMIDOJU What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to prese...
CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN Some folks say that Perception is Reality, but I have always operated under the premise that Reality...
ROBERT GRAYSON SENTER I will do what it takes to see that guy go behind bars.
ANTHONY ROBERTS
America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's...
WINONA LADUKE There can be more moving parts to them. It does require that somebody keep up with it.
DOUGLAS GILL
Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is r...
JOEL OSTEEN The sentiment that they (the two governments) seem to be bogged down is because of the distance that...
JASWANT SINGH
Don't ever reject a small
when you can't take it all.
TOBA BETA
In the end, the truth will prevail. Good and evil keep at war.
Whichever wins, future will beli...
TOBA BETA It takes a real friend not to change their perception of you when God begins to bless you.
TROY GATHERS
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for w...
JIM MORRISON
Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society do...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prison...
BARBARA DEMING
Who put up that cage?Who hung it up with bars, doors?Why do those on the inside want to get out?Why ...
CARL SANDBURG This is a public health issue. We don't allow restaurants and bars to serve tainted foods or have co...
KATHY DREA It’s not that some people have the power to make their dreams come true and some don’t, its just...
DALEEN IRSHAID
In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem ...
GERALD R. FORD There was a perception in New Orleans that in Louisiana, there was New Orleans and then there was th...
CHARLES LANDRY
Some people see a magic trick and say, "Impossible!" They clap their hands, turn over their money, a...
LEIGH BARDUGO
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsider...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding...
TOM ROBBINS
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding...
TOM ROBBINS The problem with most security products is that they require people to change their behavior, so ven...
ANDREW JAQUITH
Why is it inflationary if the people keep their own money, and spend it the way they want to, [but] ...
RONALD REAGAN Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK
If you don 't have explanation of what's happening around the world... I think somebody else knows p...
DEYTH BANGER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS The safest thing to say is with narcotics, you get violence. Amongst young people, there is this per...
JAMES WEST They've got some great shooters, great inside people. You've got to keep pressure on them.
BARB FELDERMAN
There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
ROBERT ORBEN
They got it wrong when they called it “the closet." This was a prison. Solitary confinement. I was...
JULIE ANNE PETERS Some people are saying the market is overheated and it's inevitable that it takes a break here and t...
YUTAKA MIURA
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of ...
WARSAN SHIRE I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception ab...
SHAHID KAPOOR
Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how g...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Our goal and role is to preserve their dignity and give them some time to be able to reassess, to ge...
AUGIE GHIO
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER There is a perception that special interest lobbyists are controlling the show. I think we need to c...
BILL HALTER Hypothetically, if the headquarters officially has been moved to New York, perhaps it has some tax i...
JAKE HAULK
I belong to a stupid nation that kill and murder their own people for language and religion, then th...
M.F. MOONZAJER
I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one anot...
DAN QUINN It's not just the building itself (that is unique); it's what takes place inside of it. There will b...
TOM MONAGHAN I think people were promised they would be able to get all their drugs they require. But they weren'...
VICKI GOTTLICH
I am amazed I have any fans at all!!! It makes me feel so good to know that I do. It makes me feel r...
LIV TYLER you know people seriously only deciding according to their needs and remember they dont a fuck to yo...
FAAMIN All the lonely people, where do they all come from? / All the lonely people, where do they all belon...
THE BEATLES The only reason he is in jail now is because he didn't show up for court. I feel better that he's be...
FATHER TOM BONNETT The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere...
STEPHEN KINZER People find love in life; ironically they still keep looking for it all their lives!
AVIJEET DAS
He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms mov...
CHARLES DE LINT
The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
JOSH BILLINGS
Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.
P.K. SHAW Now there's a new sense of harmony, we all have bathrooms, showers and kitchens inside our own apart...
ELADIO REYES Because people understand that the diocese is trying to help the members of that group feel more con...
JAMES MARTIN
The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.
RICK YANCEY There's an image issue here. Even though the quality of many American cars is as good, if not equal ...
DANIEL GORRELL There's an image issue here. Even though the quality of many American cars is as good, if not equal ...
DANIEL GORRELL When it comes to doubt, there is not one size that fits all. Some people struggle with it and some p...
BEN YOUNG
It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They ha...
TERRELL OWENS It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.
ERIC BETZIG They'll likely need a little care in their first season but they can stand some neglect. Once establ...
GORDY OSLUND
We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Well probably get it up to 18 players. We've got some young players (already on the roster), and hop...
ALLAN BRISTOW There are still some people out there who think that the gay community is a magical world, a masculi...
JOHN LEWINGTON
And underneath it all, there remained an ever present anger and hurt, the feeling of belonging nowhe...
ZADIE SMITH
That, ... is going to require some deep thought.
JOHN MCENROE You cant find outside what you dont have inside.
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they enco...
ANDREW FORREST Vietnamese are very similar to the Chinese. They just can't sit on gold bars underneath their be...
PHAM NHAT VUONG
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want,...
C.S. LEWIS I think everyone, all of us, are complicated people. We have jobs that require us to be a certain wa...
PAUL GUILFOYLE
Sunlight played along the River Cam. People in punts happily shouted at each other to fuck off. Thin...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There's all kinds of ugly in this world~ For some, all they need to do is keep their mouth shut & no...
BJ MORIN I think inside of us we all have this need to express feelings. Pet people, they use their pets.
STEVE MACIONTEK